Legal Counsel

Amdocs • Jersey City, NJ

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About The Position

As Legal Counsel in the Legal Department’s Global Business Group, you will be a partner and trusted advisor to Amdocs’ business group, drafting and negotiating a variety of technology licensing, professional services, SaaS, managed services and other commercial agreements, as well as providing legal consultancy and participating in business decision making processes and promoting legal, regulatory, and Amdocs policy compliance, all in collaboration with other Amdocs units, including finance and tax, and external customers and vendors.
What will your job look like?
You will be responsible for drafting, negotiating and managing legal aspects of all forms of commercial agreements, including supporting pre-sales activities, in North America, and providing ongoing post-closing legal support to internal business clients. In your day to day work we encourage and expect you to utilize our innovative legal tech platforms and collaborate with the broader legal teams to further build and improve the legal technology our group is leveraging.
You will interface with a highly collaborative and interactive legal / business team.
You will interact with business clients, management and outside customers in regard to drafting and negotiating the relevant and appropriate complex commercial agreements and transactions.
You will provide legal analyses and risk assessments and participate in business decision making processes, providing practical and issue focused legal advice and recommendations in view of business needs and applicable legal and company policy requirements and standards.
You will lead the legal aspects of commercial negotiations with internal and external customers and vendors in a variety of settings.
You will work on cross-department and cross-company legal projects.

Requirements

• Law degree from a recognized law school with solid record of academic achievement
• Admission to the Bar in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction
• At least 5+ years commercial and transactional legal experience (either in-house at a global hi-tech company or in an international law firm environment) with strong background in IT licensing, professional services and other services agreements.
• Experience working in complex, dynamic and fast paced environments.
• Experience in business risks analysis and handling business needs in a complex and ever-changing environment.
• Outstanding negotiation skills
• Strong customer facing orientation
• Ability to conclude agreements of strategic importance with others inside and outside the organization that have widely differing perspectives and objectives
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Analytical thinking ability and strong attention to detail
• Highly motivated to learn and leverage legal tech solutions
• Ability to effectively work remotely in an environment where partners and counterparties are often not in the same location

Responsibilities

• Drafting, negotiating and managing legal aspects of all forms of commercial agreements, including supporting pre-sales activities, in North America, and providing ongoing post-closing legal support to internal business clients.
• Utilize our innovative legal tech platforms and collaborate with the broader legal teams to further build and improve the legal technology our group is leveraging.
• Interface with a highly collaborative and interactive legal / business team.
• Interact with business clients, management and outside customers in regard to drafting and negotiating the relevant and appropriate complex commercial agreements and transactions.
• Provide legal analyses and risk assessments and participate in business decision making processes, providing practical and issue focused legal advice and recommendations in view of business needs and applicable legal and company policy requirements and standards.
• Lead the legal aspects of commercial negotiations with internal and external customers and vendors in a variety of settings.
• Work on cross-department and cross-company legal projects.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree